data, which are not, in many respects, compatible with 

 results to be here expected, having also a tendency to 

 mislead. The average number of tons to the" acre, 

 and the cost of growing the same, could be positively 

 ascertained in advance. The distillery, after the beet 

 sugar factory is started, could use the refuse molasses, 

 as above stated. It becomes evident that thus 

 the uncertainty of the enterprise would no longer 

 exist. We would say, that when the farmers are 

 willing to contract for beets for a period of years, and 

 when the elution method, so called, is generally prac- 

 ticed, refuse molasses will not exist. The distillery 

 would then be unnecessary. But we consider that 

 under the present farmers' difficulties the distillation 

 idea is extremely plausible. Notwithstanding, would it 

 not be well for the friends of the beet-sugar industry, 

 who are anti-liquor men, to realize the harm they would 

 do if they offered any opposition to this beet-alcohol 

 project, which is such an easy solution of so great a 

 result? 



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